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Dish with central six-pointed star and concentric bands of geometric decoration
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- Date
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2nd half of the 14th century - early 15th century
Mamluk Period (1250 - 1517)
- Material and technique
- fritware, with underglaze painting in blue and black
- Dimensions
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8 cm (height)
34 cm (diameter)
at foot 10.7 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
- Accession no.
- EA1978.1610
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 18 July-13 September 1981, and London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981, Eastern Ceramics and Other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger: Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition, Deborah Willis, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum and London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981), no. 375 on p. 129, illus. p. 129
Wade Haddon, Rosalind A., ‘Mongol Influences on Mamluk Ceramics in the Fourteenth Century’, Doris Behrens-Abouseif, ed., The Arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria - Evolution and Impact (Goettingen: V & R Unipress and Bonn University Press, 2012), illus. p. 103 fig. 6
Glossary (2)
fritware, underglaze painting
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fritware
Ceramic material composed of ground quartz and small quantities of clay and finely ground frit (frit is obtained by pouring molten glass into water).
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underglaze painting
Painting applied to ceramic material before a transparent, or monochrome or coloured glaze for Islamic objects, is applied. The technique was initially developed in China.
Location
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First floor | Room 31 | Islamic Middle East
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First floor | Room 31 | Islamic Middle East
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